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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!newsfeed.uk.ibm.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!news.xciv.org!usenet From: paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: cron and mail Date: 13 Sep 1996 23:11:32 GMT Organization: XCIV Lines: 17 Message-ID: <51cpn4$1um@xciv.demon.co.uk> References: <01bba034$6163e1e0$05b3ffcc@ppp-.knighted.com> Reply-To: paul@xciv.org NNTP-Posting-Host: pantera.xciv.org X-NNTP-Posting-Host: xciv.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 In article <01bba034$6163e1e0$05b3ffcc@ppp-.knighted.com>, "George H. Gates" <ggates@knighted.com> writes: > Does anyone know a way to make cron stop mailing a person when it does a > job? I have a cronjob that runs every 5 minutes to see if a dialout ppp > connection is still live, and it mails me with the results. 12 messages an > hour fills up my mailbax and is a real pain. Redirect the output to /dev/null, something like the following: 10,25,40,55 * * * * /usr/local/bin/some-cronjob >/dev/null 2>&1 -Paul- -- Paul Civati =O= Home: paul@xciv.org =O= http://www.xciv.org/ London UK =O= Home: paul@xciv.demon.co.uk =O= Slackware is.